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Le choc des deux Corées The clash of the two KoreasKorea vs. Korea
Two Koreas, face to face
A tale of two Koreas
Korea: North vs. South
The Korean showdown
-Korea, avec un k
-pas de point
-les noms propres prennent le pluriel en anglais
La péninsule est coupée en deux depuis la fin The peninsula has been cut in half since the
de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. end of World War II.
-World War II ou the Second World War : ne pas mélanger les articles
-present perfect indispensable : structure archi-basique, et pourtant erreur dans grosse
majorité de copies
Aujourd’hui, les tensions culminent Tensions are now reaching (the) boiling point
D’un côté, à la tête d’un Etat petit mais aux In one corner/On the one hand,
grandes capacités de nuisance, un Docteur at the head of small but potentially highly
Folamour qui menace la planète de dangerous country, a Dr. Strangelove
bombardements nucléaires. threatening the world with nuclear bombings.
-a threat mais to threaten
-to threaten someone with
-bombing, pas bombarding
-pour Dr. Folamour, si on ne reconnaît pas la ref, opter pour quelque chose qui fasse sens ;
exemples trouvés dans les copies : evil genius, mad scientist, Bomberman, a make-war-not-
love doctor, a James Bond-like villain…
De l’autre , au sommet de la première In the other/On the other hand,
puissance mondiale, un président aussi facile as leader of the free world/leading the
à suivre qu’un chien fou. world’s first great power, a president as easy
to follow/easily followed/as easy to keep up
with as a mad dog.
-ne pas aller à la ligne pour cette phrase
-collocation : mad dog, pas crazy dog
-at the top of : aucun sens ici
-beaucoup de constructions ne voulant rien dire pour première puissance mondiale (avec
worldwide et global notamment)
Pour compléter la distribution, une Chine en To round off the cast/As supporting actors,
embuscade et un Japon qui rêve de jouer sa China is waiting in the wings, and Japan
partie. dreams of playing/landing a part.
OU a China et a Japan
-les pays ne sont pas des animés humains, donc it et its
-attention aux contresens sur en embuscade
De nombreux experts en géopolitique Numerous geopolitical experts predict/are
prédisent que la grande guerre du XXIe saying that
siècle aura lieu en Asie. the great war of the 21st century will take
place in Asia.
-numéros de siècle en chiffres en anglais (penser à 20th Century Fox) + 21st, pas th
On ne s’avance guère en affirmant que, dans It is/seems
le scénario qui conduira à cette apocalypse, fair/safe
la Corée tiendra une place de choix. to assume/assert/claim/say
that in the scenario ending in such
apocalypse, Korea will play a leading
role/have a leading part.
De gesticulations militaires en What with its military posturing and its
rebondissements diplomatiques, la petite unpredictable diplomacy, this little Far
péninsule extrême-asiatique ne cesse de jouer Eastern peninsula won’t stop playing with
avec les nerfs du monde. the world’s nerves.
-ne pas confondre to stop to do et to stop doing
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